Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1883 — PEARLS. [ARTICLE]

PEARLS.

The eagle in one house is a fool in another.—Gres set. It is difficult to grow old gracefully. —Madane de Stael. Joy and temperance and repoee 81am the door in the doctor's nose. —LmvafeUo «a They live too long who happiness outlive, For life and death are things indifferent Each to be chose, as either brings content. —Dryden. No falsehood can endnre the touch of celestial temper bat returns of force to its own likeness.— Milton . There should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric, and pure invention is but the talent of a' deceiver.— Byron. He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.— Henry Ward Beecher. The primal* duties shine aloft, UVa stars; the charities that soothe, and heal and bless are scattered at the feet of men like flowers.— Wordsworth. It is as much the duty of all good men to protect and defend the reputation of worthy public servants as to detect public rascals. — James A. Garfield. He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to the contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and is struggling like a swimmer against the stream.— From the Latin. A slave has but one master, an ambitious man has as many masters as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortune.—La Bruy ere. All those things which are now held to be of the greatest antiquity, were, at one time, new; and what we to-day hold up .by example, will rank hereafter as a precedent. — Tacitus.